Asus Crosshair III my future board how good is it?

liamcrane · 14 Sep 2010 at 21:10

Hi all

Going to treat myself soon to a new board soon and i really like the look of the crosshair III board always seems to get good reviews. Just wanted to hear some opinions of people who have this or have used one before. Its going to be a little bit of a costly upgrade for me as at the mo im running an AM2+ board with DDR2 ram.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-339-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=

One question though i have a PII 955 BE C2 and i love it never lets me down, would this CPU be ok with this board?

Thanks

Liam

Martini1991 · 14 Sep 2010 at 21:22

Pointless "Upgrade" imo.
Will do nothing for you, wait until SB/BD.

cmndr_andi · 14 Sep 2010 at 22:29

I have to agree. The only benefits you will get is DDR3 RAM (even though the performance increase will be rather slight) and more PCIe lanes. For a cost of ~£200 that is a pretty bad deal IMHO.

Are you finding performance on your current system OK?

Orcvader · 14 Sep 2010 at 22:53

Wait for the new AM3+ boards. AMD stated AM3 CPUs "should" work with them, this should leave a more open upgrade path.

liamcrane · 15 Sep 2010 at 06:07

cmndr_andi said:
I have to agree. The only benefits you will get is DDR3 RAM (even though the performance increase will be rather slight) and more PCIe lanes. For a cost of ~£200 that is a pretty bad deal IMHO.

Are you finding performance on your current system OK?

Hi mate, the performance of my setup is amazing im really happy with it, i was just thinking that in 6 months to a year i might need to upgrade to AM3 as im sure DDR2 ram will slowly fade out. Just really liked the look of that crosshair board but like everyone has said for the price its not going to be much of a perfromance upgrade

cmndr_andi · 15 Sep 2010 at 11:36

I understand your reasoning now.

However, I would still suggest against it. One of the reasons is that at the start of 2011 the AM3 will no longer be the "current" AMD socket - they are moving to AM3+ which works with the new "Bulldozer" CPUs.

These AM3+ boards are supposed to work with current AM3 CPUs (like your Phenom II), so it may be an idea upgrading the RAM and motherboard then and this means you will be ready for Bulldozer CPUs.